MP

MP, Mp or mp may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• M.P. (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn
• Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
• Magic points, or mana points, in role-playing games
• Multiplayer gaming
• Multipremier, a Mexican television network

Businesses and organizations

• Martinair (IATA airline designator MP)
• Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
• Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP)
• Mueller and Pfleger, subsidiary of aquarium suppliers Eheim

In law and politics

Government agencies

• Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil)
• Public Ministry (Portugal) (Ministério Público)
• Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Ministério Público)

Police forces

• Military police
• Mumbai Police
• Municipal police
  • Metropolitan police
    • Metropolitan Police Service, the police force of Greater London

Political parties

• Green Party (Sweden) (Miljöpartiet)
• Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (Mouvement Progressiste)

Other uses in law and politics

• Manu propria, a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
• Member of parliament, in many countries
• Provisory measure, in Brazilian law (medida provisória)

In linguistics

• Mp (digraph), in many African languages
• Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
• Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics

Places

• Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
• Mandatory Palestine, a former British protectorate
• Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP)

In science and technology

In biology

• Menopause, in the female lifecycle
• Metacarpophalangeal joint, more commonly abbreviated MCP
• Middle phalanx bone, a finger bone
• Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

In computing

• .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
• File formats developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG):
  • MP3
  • MP4
• Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager
• Massive parallelism (disambiguation)
• Media player (disambiguation)
• Media processor, a type of digital signal processor designed to deal with streaming data in real-time
• Megapixel, a unit of a million pixels
• Merge Point, in the MPLS local protection approach to network resiliency
• Microprocessor, a computer processor with a minimal number of integrated circuits
• Microsoft Project, project-management software
• Multilink Protocol (or Multilink PPP), a method for spreading traffic across multiple point-to-point protocol connections
• Multi-platform, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms
• Multiprocessing, the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system

Firearms

• Machine pistol
• MP, a brand of Russian firearms, including:
  • MP-71
  • MP412 REX
  • MP-443 Grach
  • MP-444 (Bagira)
  • MP-445 (Varyag)
  • MP-446 Viking
  • MP-448 Skyph

In mathematics

• Mathematical programming, or mathematical optimization
• Maximum parsimony, in statistical analysis
• Modus ponens, in propositional logic, a Latin expression meaning "mode that affirms"

In physics

• Mathematical physics, the development of mathematical methods for application in physics
• Megapond, a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
• Melting point, the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid
• Proton mass (symbol m_p)

In production

• Mass production, the production of standardized products, especially on assembly lines
• Microprinting, a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
• Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print

Other uses in science and technology

• Mammal Paleogene zone, in geology, a type of zone in the stratigraphic record
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
• Tie (engineering), or mending plate, a structural member designed to resist tension
• One of several models of rolling stock on the Paris Métro, notably:
  • MP 59
  • MP 73
  • MP 89
  • MP 05

Other uses

• Market price, the price for which a good or service is offered in the marketplace
• Marka polska, a historical Polish money unit
• Roman mile (mille passuum)